Quotes By Barry Gibb

I will always have my songs and I don't think I will ever dry-up.

Our parents came home one day and heard us, and they thought it was the radio, but our grandfather told them it was us.

Maurice would prance into a room, you know, and his presence was immediate.

I think they are grooming me as another Gary Cooper.

It is commercial pop that the majority of people understand. A working man's daughter would not understand blues.

I like blues but it is music I am too ignorant to understand.

I'm Mr Boring, not a party-goer at all.

I have a little dictaphone and if a sound takes my fancy or if a lyric comes to me in the middle of the night I'll just record it there and then.

He was the average guy. Maurice, I think, reflected every man.

The only thing that exists to me is commercial pop music.

We enjoy change and freshness, and disco was only one area we've delved into.

Now there is a new group every week; it seems like everybody and anybody can get into the charts.

I'm the eldest at 51, and if the Stones can drag themselves around once more, then there's a few more albums in us.

The only thing I miss on stage is the falsetto.

We were very influenced by The Beatles, no question.

The secret is to make sure your family comes before anything else, because no matter what you do you've got to come home.

Leaving Australia was the hardest thing I have ever done.

When you write a song you have an idea of how it should be sung but it doesn't work out that way if someone else records it.

You can be tops in Australia and be unheard of everywhere else.

I never really did any disco dancing.

I have a huge ego and a huge inferiority complex at the same time.

I've never been into parties, premieres or night-clubbing.

I just love the feeling a close family gives you and I wouldn't change it for anything.

My music, certainly, has never embarrassed me.

I don't ever wish I was somebody else.

It's very questionable, and we will pursue every factor, every element, every second of the timeline, of the final hours of Maurice's life. We will pursue that relentlessly. That will be our quest from now on.

We had to leave Australia to become international stars.

When you are in your 20's and 30's, you just want a hit record and you don't really care how it happens.

By going solo I could lose a fortune but money is not important.

The Bee Gees no longer exist.